Murphy v. Boston & Maine Railroad

In this action of tort for personal injuries sustained by a fall on High Street in Medford where that street crosses the tracks of the defendant, the only question before us is the sufficiency of a notice given by the plaintiff.

By G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 84, § 18, as it appears in St. 1933, c, 114, § 1, the plaintiff was required within thirty days to give to the “person” obliged by law to keep the way in repair, notice, among other things, of the “cause” of her injury. The defendant corporation was a “person” entitled to notice under that section. Dickie v. Boston & Albany Railroad, 131 Mass.…